Ogg Frog Or Bust

So as I said in my previous
Vancouver Diary, progress on
Ogg Frog has been halted for quite some time because
I need to rearchitect a good chunk of it to fix a deadlock.

It took so long to figure out the problem because it only happened rarely at first.
But my first stab at fixing it had the result that it happens almost every time I
play a track now. That's progress, in the sense that it's easier to fix a bug
that's easy to reproduce.

(As I write this about a hundred cyclist are riding by on Robson Street, whooping
and hollering and largely ignoring the outraged motorists that are honking their horns.)

I've had a good idea as to how to fix the problem, but what I haven't had is real
quality time to devote to it.

Because I sleep so much, most weekends since I've been in Vancouver I've had to go
into the office to make up time lost sleeping. I was still able to get work done on
Ogg Frog, but then what I was coding wasn't so difficult.

Also I've been devoting a lot of time to practicing piano. I have a wonderful new
piano teacher now named Angela Bonilla, and I don't want my time with her to be wasted.

So this week my focus has been on not sleeping so much, and getting to work each
day so I don't have to work on the weekend. As of now, Friday evening, I have
succeeded, and I also made some good progress at work.

I haven't done so good at practicing the piano though - I've been so tired most
evenings when I got home that I went right to sleep.

Tonight I'm determined to practice though. I don't feel so tired now. I'll get
started on Ogg Frog in the morning.

I'm afraid quite a bit of work remains before I'll have a release, but hopefully
if I can get over this hurdle this weekend I'll start making steady progress again.

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